Northland College is a school full of stories and storytellers. With this year’s resurrection of the college’s student newspaper and literary magazine, Northland College students have regained a direct conduit between the narratives and narrators of fellow students, faculty, staff and community members.

Drifts, Northland College’s student newspaper since 1911, is released every three weeks. The goal of editors Margaux Abrams and Brett Sigurdson is, as they write in the mission statement of the November issue, “to provide [students] with coverage of campus events, to give [students] unique perspective of local and world happenings, to offer humorous and sometimes irreverent commentary on, well, anything.”

“There is always something going on at Northland,” said Sigurdson, a junior. “Through words and photos, we hope to establish a record of this place and time in the college’s history.”

Drifts work is primarily carried out by a small staff and freelance contributions from everyone in the Northland community.

Covering the creative side of Northland’s students is the Quartile, a new quarterly publication filled with fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art and photography submitted by the Northland College community, as well as Ashland-area residents. The Quartile, edited by seniors Alex Johnson and Alison Spaude, will be released four times this year and is roughly the size, 12-16 pieces of writing and artwork, of the Mosaic—Northland’s long-time literary journal and the showcase publication for the best work featured in the Quartile.

“We wanted to give the opportunity to share the work of students throughout the year,” said Spaude about turning the once-a-year journal into a quarterly publication, something that hasn’t been done before. “There are a lot of real talented, creative people here.”

Aside from publishing the creative works of Northland students, Johnson and Spaude are planning a poetry contest for area high school students and a sonnet contest open to anyone in the Ashland area. Winners of these will receive a cash prize and publication in the Mosaic.

For a glimpse of the stories—both fictition and not—of Northland College and its students, check out the latest issues of Drifts and the Quartile.